Craniosacral Therapy

Concierge PT offers the next level of treatment. This is in response to insurance policy coverage limitations that no longer focus on client goals and instead have redefined "medically necessary" to "minimally functional." Left with deficits in movement, strength, or pain due to policy gaps, we offer skilled therapy services to address these and more.

Common Conditions We Treat:

• Scar tissue and adhesions — including restrictions following surgery, trauma, burns, or other tissue injury that can affect mobility, flexibility, strength, or comfort.

• Lymphatic cording — often occurring after breast cancer surgery or lymph node procedures and potentially causing tightness, pulling, pain, and restricted shoulder or arm movement.

• Persistent post-surgical restrictions — when healing is complete but stiffness, soft-tissue restriction, weakness, or altered movement patterns remain.

• Temporomandibular disorders (TMD/TMJ) — including jaw pain, limited opening, headaches, and associated cervical dysfunction.

• Headaches and migraine-related musculoskeletal dysfunction — when cervical, thoracic, postural, or muscular impairments contribute to symptoms.

• Pelvic floor dysfunction — including musculoskeletal contributors to pelvic, hip, or low-back symptoms, urinary urgency, or other functional limitations, when within the therapist's training and scope.

• Hypermobility and connective-tissue disorders — when patients require longer-term management of joint stability, proprioception, strength, and movement strategies.

• Postural and movement dysfunction — when the patient remains limited in activities despite being considered “functional” by insurance standards.

• Sports, recreational, and performance-related limitations — when the goal is to optimize movement or return to a high level of activity rather than simply restore basic function.

• Musician-related musculoskeletal problems — such as repetitive strain, asymmetry, mobility restrictions, or movement coordination issues affecting performance.

• Work or activity-specific conditioning — when a patient needs to build capacity beyond basic activities of daily living

Craniosacral therapy is a gentle, manual therapy approach utilized within physical therapy to assess and address impairments involving the cranial, cervical, spinal, and fascial systems. Treatment incorporates low-force, specific manual techniques directed toward areas of identified soft-tissue restriction, altered mobility, muscular hypertonicity, and impaired neuromusculoskeletal function.

As a Doctor of Physical Therapy, craniosacral techniques are integrated into a comprehensive, individualized plan of care based upon the patient's history, clinical examination, movement impairments, functional limitations, and response to treatment. Treatment may be directed toward improving soft-tissue mobility, reducing excessive muscular tension, optimizing regional mobility and movement coordination, and facilitating more efficient neuromusculoskeletal function.